Of the 32 states that once had laws for compulsory sterilization of people deemed "feeble-minded," "moronic" and otherwise undesirable as parents, none was more aggressive.
In response, Palestine's president, Mahmoud Abbas, spurned America's umpiring and took his campaign for statehood global, earning the first plaudits in years from more radical Palestinian factions, such as Hamas, which have long deemed him feeble.
Now, along with scores of others selected for state sterilization — among them uneducated young girls who had been raped by older men, poor teenagers from large families, people with epilepsy and those deemed to be too "feeble-minded" to raise children — Mr. Holt is waiting to see what a state that had one of the country's most aggressive eugenics programs will decide his fertility was worth.
The England selectors, with a faith that would be deemed commendable in some quarters but feeble in others, have opted to leave well alone and give the Test team the opportunity to demonstrate they are capable of digging holes in which to bury others rather than from which to extricate themselves.
Peter Paterson, also of the Daily Mail, deemed Meyer an asset to the show, which he finds "feeble" in Meyer's absence.
The legislation would also strengthen rules for testing children's products and would take steps to give more muscle to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which was criticized last year for its feeble handling of a flood of goods from China deemed hazardous to children.
Negative eugenics took the form of encouraged or forced sterilizations of men and women deemed unfit to reproduce (in the language of the day, this included individuals who were "poor, mentally insane, feeble-minded, idiots, drunken" and more).
He deemed this "offensive".
She deemed it "fascinating".
America deemed it "invalid".
Lloyd was deemed missing.
